Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Aug 2013 13:14:55 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: stable: a59f4e079d19464eebb9b06513a1d4f55fdae5ba needs backport ? |
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* Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> wrote:
> commit a59f4e079d19464eebb9b06513a1d4f55fdae5ba > Author: Zhu Yanhai <gaoyang.zyh@taobao.com> > Date: Tue Jan 8 12:56:52 2013 +0800 > > sched: Fix the broken sched_rr_get_interval() > > Without this patch, syscall sched_rr_get_interval() can return wrong > value, and the bug was introduced in 2.6.24, so this looks like a > candidate for stable kernel. > > The concern for backporting is that this might break some userspace > programs? As the changelog says: > > [ Since this is an ABI and an old bug, we'll test this via a > slow upstream route, to hopefully discover any app breakage. ]
It appears to have caused no trouble.
So I'm fine with backporting it to older -stable kernels:
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thanks,
Ingo
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